1985

1985 is the fourth year of the 1980s and the 1985th year of the Common Era.

Events

 * El_Descanso.jpg]]Israel began to withdraw troops from Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War.
 * The Irish Republican Army launched a mortar attack on Ulster policemen at Newry, killing 9 officers.
 * On 13 April, the El Descanso bombing by the Islamic Jihad Organization killed 18 Spaniards and wounded 82.
 * Air India Flight 182 and the Narita International Airport were bombed by the Sikh Babbar Khalsa International resistance movement in attacks meant to kill Indians, but most of the killed on the plane were Canadians at the dead at Narita were two Japanese baggage handlers - 331 people died in both combined.
 * EgyptAir Flight 648 was raided by the Egyptian Army after the Abu Nidal Organization hijacked it, leaving 60 dead.
 * Seychelles resistance leader Gerard Hoarau was killed.
 * The Mujahideen began to turn the tide of the Soviet-Afghan War.
 * Famine in Ethiopia.